Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this will be my full Star Wars and or episode 5 video there were
a whole bunch of Easter eggs and references so we'll break it all down if you're brand
new to the channel I'm doing videos for all the episodes be sure to subscribe to get them careful
for spoilers from the episode if you haven't seen it yet we'll just start at the beginning and work
our way through shop by shot talking about Easter eggs and WTF moments starting with the title the
episode was titled the axe forgets a reference to Arvel saying the ax forgets but the tree remembers
it was his metaphor for the Empire forgetting about them when they were growing up and many
others that they grind down in their prisons the work camps facilities for processing children and
they are the trees that grow up as children in that system and then remember what the empire
did to them coming back for revenge later and it's meant to be a big part of why they're doing this
creating the rebellion and I believe they also reference the Rebellion by name in the episode
for the first time I don't think we've actually heard them refer to it as the Rebellion at least
in an episode yet this episode was mostly about them beginning The Heist and kind of showing you
the Imperial base for the first time in also showing you a little bit more around Coruscant
and some of the other planets now I'm assuming the entire Heist just takes place in next week's
episode unless it winds up being like a really long Heist or really short episode and there's
a cliffhanger the actual opening scene starts with Karn having gone back to his mother's with
his tail between his legs trying to find a new job basically that's a whole conversation he has with
his mother about finding new prospects she seems very ambitious for her son it also kind of looks
like he's eating a version of space Cocoa Puffs here that a little bit green and they have some
blue milk which obviously Big Star Wars thing blue milk when she references the conversation
with the uncle about this job that he might wind up getting I think the idea is that it's
going to push him in the direction of the Empire or something that will throw him back into the
story because he looks at the picture of Andor that he has on file and in the first couple of
episodes I thought of him as being kind of like an Inspector Javert Les Mis type of character
like the person who won't let it go who will just pursue him to the end of their days because that's
basically what Dedra is doing on the Empire side of things we might see Karn also join the empire
that might be the job that they think that he should get oh you should Advance your prospects
join the Empire he already has the vibe of an imperial character to begin with then we see
Andor wake up his Rebellion study manual all this stuff is gone they're investigating because the
whole idea is that none of them really trust each other that much and he's like brand new
to the group it's a big thing in the episode of them not totally trusting him the corporate issue
Blaster that he references is the one he stole off the men that he killed in episode one like where
did you get this I didn't really get their names the way arvel talks about his tattoos they seem
like they're from various Imperial institutions that he grew up in as a child until he eventually
decided to join the Rebellion the one for the crate head is a reference to the crate dragon
from Tatooine obviously which we saw during the events of the Mandalorian like we actually saw a
real crate Dragon the phrase by the hand I think is a reference to the emperor's hand which were
like the super Commandos that they featured during Rebels so it sounds like arvel actually used to be
an imperial super Commando before he chose to join the Rebellion when Andor says that one of
the facilities that he was in as a child was sippo that's brand new to the Star Wars Universe there
are a lot of people in a lot of places that are brand new to Star Wars they introduced in this
episode but you also remember that a lot of his backstory he lied to luthen about so he could be
lying about that just because he's a pathological liar later in the episode after arvel finds out
about the kyber crystal the Jedi Crystal that Andor has and gets really pissed off at him
he explains the actual reason why he joined the Rebellion is because the Empire basically caused
his brother to kill himself and before that his brother ran a tree farm which is why he made the
tree ax metaphor earlier in the episode and a couple you were mentioning this in my earlier
videos but yes he is the actor who played micro in Netflix's The Punisher we get a little bit
of mon mothma in this episode we see a little bit more of her around The Breakfast Table is
a very opulent spread like remember she's meant to be one of the richest people on course one
of the most powerful people too in the Senate but the breakfast is just meant to give you a
Vibe for her home life we never really met her husband in the Star Wars Canon before like the
Canon had never mentioned him but before and it never mentioned that she had a daughter whose
name Leida sounds very similar to Leia maybe that has something to do with her joining the
Rebellion later now it sounds like right now she's already trying to help the Rebellion on the DL but
she's not all in completely so what might wind up happening like early Theory press F to pay
respects her family might die in some kind of Imperial accident where the Empire might lead
to their deaths and that might cause her to go all in on the Rebellion because it sounds like a lot
of these early Rebels are super hardcore and most of them join because they lost someone very close
to them it's kind of hard to pick up what's going on with her daughter with this brief conversation
that they have she comes off a little bit like a typical spoiled rich girl but I think the idea
is that she falsely believes that mon mothma is one of those typical politicians that everybody
hates it sounds like she's trying to take her to some charitable cause that she's working on but it
sounds like her daughter thinks that she doesn't actually care about what she's doing if they do
wind up killing her daughter off during the series maybe before that happens she'll find out what mon
mothma is really doing like no no I'm actually trying to help people on the DL we're trying to
get rid of this Empire and later in the car ride on Coruscant with her husband we get a little bit
more of a tour of the exterior of course or the upper levels of course and you have to remember
the entire planet is covered in the city and each level of the city is just built on the old
layers of the city as they go along so they're like thousands of years of City just buried
underneath the top layers you wind up exploring a lot more of course during the Clone Wars episode
so if you really like them going on tours all over different places of the city and different lower
levels they actually did that in Clone Wars Episodes but it sounds like on their car ride
home when their husband starts asking her about what she's actually doing with these charitable
causes they want to make him come off as less of a dirt bag like he actually does kind of care about
what she's doing back on all Donnie when they start drinking that Dre milk Dre was a former
human Jedi Padawan during the Clone Wars but I think this Dre animal is meant to be something
that's completely different and new to the Star Wars Canon the really old navigation device that
nemec gives him sounds like it's pre-empire so it could be Republic it could be a little bit older
than he makes it sound like it's ancient and I think the way he talks to Andor and a lot of the
other conversations he has throughout this part of the episode is they're supposed to slowly Inspire
him to care more about the actual state of the Galaxy like he starts to hear the stories of these
other people why they join the rebellion and they start to inspire him a little bit more because at
this point in the story he still doesn't really care about the Rebellion he doesn't care about
the Empire the only thing he actually wants is to find his sister so he'll do anything he has
to to further that cause and that's the whole idea here's working for luthen pulling this job because
he thinks he's going to get a bunch of money and that will help him find his sister but it sounds
like part of his Arc through the series is just growing to believe in their cause because during
Rogue one it seems like he's full on Rebellion the other resistance members not really knowing
what's going on with their escape vessel is just to show you that a lot of what they're doing is
done by the seat of their pants and they're kind of making things up as they go along hoping for
the best like at any point any of this could fail and they could all die andor's fake name that he's
using for the mission is Clem because that was the name he wanted to use that he told Luther and
that was his adoptive father's name even though he didn't tell that part to luthen part of his fake
backstory they create for this mission is that he's going to be a transfer from all Kenzie in
this other base that's just another place on this same all Donny planet and I love the transition
during the scene because right after he gets done being asked whether or not he knows how to March
and act as an imperial Soldier they transitioned to the Imperial soldiers actually marching in
formation on pharynx everybody running around in the black uniforms those are just regular Imperial
officers Imperial officers have a couple different types of uniforms they wear the black ones and the
green ones but they're all meant to be part of the Imperial Navy and the whole idea is that they're
just furthering their mission and taking over this area which was previously ruled by the corporation
because there's 12 episodes and we're still pretty early on in the series we'll probably see a lot
more of them on this planet especially with bix's character back on all Donny they get a fly by by
one of the Tie fighters going back to the base and we find out what's going on with Lieutenant Gorn
and his backstory like why it is that he's helping them enjoying the Rebellion when he's already
being paid so well as an imperial Lieutenant they basically explained that the Empire is eventually
planning on tearing down the entire area where the celestial phenomenon is viewed this big sacred
place for the people they're basically going to mow over it and use the planet as more of a
jumping off point for more of their operations like a much bigger hub for the Imperial Fleet
so they're basically going to pave over most of the planet so not only are they going to lose the
celestial phenomenon that everybody keeps talking about during the episode like it's this very
revered thing like even the lower grade Imperial officers are really excited about watching it like
they say you have to be up there to see it even though we can't all be up there but also Gorn
at some point in the past fell in love with one of the local women and that's probably his connection
to why he grew to love the celestial phenomenon so much and when the Empire found out about his
liaison with a Woman They withheld his promotion and eventually something happened and the woman
wound up leaving it sounds like she's still alive but it sounds like something caused her to take
off so he lost his promotion he lost his woman and pretty soon they're going to lose this Celestial
phenomenon to the m Empire and that's why he wants to help the Rebellion back on Coruscant
and the Imperial Security Bureau Dedra references hosnian prime again her aid references Kessel
fondor jakku Kessel obviously where the spice mines are mentioned several times all across the
Star Wars movies and TV shows fondor is another planet where they have the Imperial shipyards they
referenced this earlier in the season in jakku is obviously from the sequel Trilogy it's the
location of one of the emperor's secret vaults of special weapons artifacts contingency plans
it becomes a big deal in the fall of the Empire after the events of Return of the Jedi base cay
that he mentions is brand new to Star Wars in the steer Guard base is the Imperial base that luthen
mentioned earlier it's brand new to Star Wars as well but it's also the place where Andor stole
the star path unit from initially in the whole pattern here that she's trying to figure out is
her learning about the Rebellion just in general like slowly eventually tracking luthin in all of
his cohorts down we jump back to the Imperial base at all daddy so we see a little bit of the inside
and the ship that they're going to be using to try and Escape that they were talking about earlier in
the episode we also get to see the actual payroll that they'll be stealing like this giant pile of
what looks like gold basically they'd be like a version of Imperial credits like there's a
couple different versions of money inside the Star Wars universe but during the reign of the
Empire Imperial credits were like the main form of currency and Gorn basically tries to create
a situation that will cause most of the people working there to not be around during the actual
Heist when it's going down just to make it a little bit easier for everyone remember the whole
idea is they're going to be pulling the heist off while the celestial phenomenon is happening so
most of that base most Imperial officers there will be outside watching it and not inside the
base watching the actual payroll and then back at luthen shot the communicator that he's watching
here listening to is the same device that Bix was trying to contact him on earlier it sounds like
he's using this old transmitter technology just to communicate with all the other people he's
working with in the Rebellion but because there are Easter eggs all over his shop remember his
whole thing is he's a collector he deals in stolen and found quote artifacts although I think part
of the ideas that they were stolen in pilford from other people like a lot of them are Jedi artifacts
pilfered from Jedi temples but the main ones they really want you to focus on are what look like a
Jedi holocron in a Sith holocron Sith holocrons are the Triangular ones the Jedi holocrons are
the square looking ones they're a little bit bigger than holocrons have been depicted in the
past but it just sounds like that's what they want you to think of when you look at them like oh wait
a minute those are kind of like holocrons some of the other major Jedi artifacts in the front of his
shot that we saw previously on the series were part of the Jedi mural of the mortis Gods which
was featured during the Clone Wars Episodes which is actually a really big deal surprisingly would
actually have it this looks like placoon's mask and in the background here after the episode Sam
Whitworth said that this is basically starkiller's armor so he said that he's kind of in the episode
like I said I'm kind of in the episode if you really bend over backwards you could say that
that makes Starkiller Canon not officially but kind of Canon the stones on the upper right here
look kind of like the stones from Indiana Jones Temple of Doom and I'm not sure what this neck
piece on the wall is like it's very prominent so if you think you recognize this neck piece
in the background here just let me know what you think it is in the comments below but this is just
a small part of his shop so I'm sure as they show more scenes in here in different angles we'll see
more Easter eggs in the background but it was a relatively Short episode there wasn't a whole lot
going on during it so if you think you spotted any other big Easter eggs or references that I
didn't talk about in the video just write them Below in the comments there's a link for all my
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